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he wilfully goes away from her, heartbroken at his wife's
open hostility towards him, and comes to stay at Alwaye
on the banks of the Curņi river. From there he sends the
message to his beloved at Trichur. On the way are noted
Gahapura, Pancasirsa, Sangama temple (Irinjalakuda)
Valayanilaya (the Uraka temple), and Puruvana (the
Perumana temple).
We get no clue from the work as to the author-
ship of the poem. In a verse found at the end of the
work it is mentioned that a brahmin named Nilakantha
* wrote the work. This apparently seems to have been
composed by some scribe who copied the work though it
is not altogether impossible that the author himself
might have composed the verse. The verse neither gives
us any indication as to the date of the work since the
is not given in the verse³. But from the description
year
of certain places in the poem we may presume that the
poem was composed not earlier than the 19th century
A. D. For instance the poet mentions the Vadakke-
chira at Trichur where he says the heroine may come in
the evening to wash herself. The Vadakkechira in its
23
present form was constructed only round about.
23.
मासे वृषे पुष्यगते शशाङ्के, खे मध्यगेऽहस्कृति चान्द्रिवारे ।
समालिखनीलगलाख्यविप्रश्च कोरसन्देशमिदं मनोज्ञम् ॥
à grans could mean only when it was noon'; tke kali
day or kali year, if calculated from this, gives dates obviously
improbable.
24. Uttara, Vs. 7 and 8.
he wilfully goes away from her, heartbroken at his wife's
open hostility towards him, and comes to stay at Alwaye
on the banks of the Curņi river. From there he sends the
message to his beloved at Trichur. On the way are noted
Gahapura, Pancasirsa, Sangama temple (Irinjalakuda)
Valayanilaya (the Uraka temple), and Puruvana (the
Perumana temple).
We get no clue from the work as to the author-
ship of the poem. In a verse found at the end of the
work it is mentioned that a brahmin named Nilakantha
* wrote the work. This apparently seems to have been
composed by some scribe who copied the work though it
is not altogether impossible that the author himself
might have composed the verse. The verse neither gives
us any indication as to the date of the work since the
is not given in the verse³. But from the description
year
of certain places in the poem we may presume that the
poem was composed not earlier than the 19th century
A. D. For instance the poet mentions the Vadakke-
chira at Trichur where he says the heroine may come in
the evening to wash herself. The Vadakkechira in its
23
present form was constructed only round about.
23.
मासे वृषे पुष्यगते शशाङ्के, खे मध्यगेऽहस्कृति चान्द्रिवारे ।
समालिखनीलगलाख्यविप्रश्च कोरसन्देशमिदं मनोज्ञम् ॥
à grans could mean only when it was noon'; tke kali
day or kali year, if calculated from this, gives dates obviously
improbable.
24. Uttara, Vs. 7 and 8.